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[ronser2000]

i am worried about what my kids are eating after reading about this stuff that is in nearly every processed food, check out the link and tel your friends/family not to eat this crap.
www.bantransfats.com/abouttransfat.html

[Loubear]

ok so i go onto the site to have a look. I click on alternatives to see what is waiting to jump into their place to be added to foods. Nothing...i figure it's not going to kill us unless we sit on our fat a$$es eating wheelbarrow loads of the stuff every day.

[ronser2000]

you dont need to eat a wheelbarrow load,the average person eats 20grams trans fat a day! while the fda in america recomend less than 2 grams a day! imagine a child eating this crap all his/her life,even small amounts of trans fat(5mg day) increases risk of cardiovascular disease such as heart attacks etc,live in ignorance if you like but why have big companies started to put more expensive ingredients in products instead of trans fats? because they now how bad it is and fear law suits against them! tell your friends not to eat this sh1te,a bag chips contains 6grams trans fat! and if you have a batter sausage or battered fish your talking about another grams of this crap, there are tons of alternatives and full fat butter is a healthier alternative than this muck,,,,,,see below


Tommy Thompson, the Secretary of HHS, said at a news conference on the Guidelines on January 12, 2005 that the FDA may recommend that daily intake of trans fat be less than 2 grams, perhaps less than 1 gram. Click here to read the transcript of the news conference. In effect, that would mean totally avoiding any food containing partially hydrogenated oils.

In March 2003, Denmark issued new regulations limiting the amount of trans fat in processed foods. Denmark's food minister said: "We put the public health above the industry's interests." Why can't the United States do the same?

How much trans fat is in the products that we eat?

In a recent survey, five popular restaurant or takeout foods were randomly selected and analyzed for their trans fat content. Trans fats were found in all of the products that were tested:

• Five small chicken nuggets from a fast food chicken outlet contained nearly 4 grams of trans fat.

• An apple danish from a donut shop contained about 2.7 grams of trans fat.

• Two vegetable spring rolls from a Chinese takeout contained about 1.7 grams of trans fat.

• Just one fillet of battered fish from a fish and chips restaurant dinner contained about 1.2 grams of trans fat -- and that's not including the trans fat in the French fries.

• Even in pizza you'd most likely ingest about 1 gram of trans fat in two slices -- most of it from vegetable shortening used to process the crust.

Click here to read the report about the restaurant survey.

For those of you who eat at McDonald's in the United States, click here for the amount of trans fat in each product. One large French fries contains 6 grams. A baked apple pie contains 4.5 grams.

Incidentally, don't think that the problem is only at McDonald's or other fast-food chains. Nothing could be further from the truth. Many other restaurants, including "quality" restaurants, fry their food in partially hydrogenated oil and served baked goods containing partially hydrogenated oil. At least McDonald's is diligently trying to reduce trans fats in its cooking oil and has had some success in reducing it in its fried chicken products. Many other restaurant operations are not even trying.

How much trans fat do we consume in a day? Some of us are consuming virtually none, because we are being extremely selective about what we eat. Some of us are consuming in excess of 20 grams of trans fat per day. How much are you consuming

[Dan Jacobs]

WOW! You sure did you r research

I am concerned about the credibility of that site tho'. They have a pic of Oreos (the best biccies EVER), implying that they contain these evil fats. I was distraught for a while, until i looked on a pack of Oreos and there's no hydrogenated vegetable oil.

Here's an odd one: Dairygold light contains hydrogenated vegetable oil, but normal dairygold doesn't!

[ronser2000]

the irony is that lower saturated fat (or supposedly healthier) options are usually loaded with trans fat crap. oreos used to contain it but they removed it in recent years due to negative publicity.other culprits are pringles(these things are lethal) frozen garlic breads and thosands of other everyday products

[Loubear]

Now theres a phrase I never thought I'd ever read....Pringles are lethal....I now have an image of the pringles man running down the road firing pringles at people to behead them hmmmmmmm might be something in that after all ;D